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Why did slavery start in the colonies

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17th century. In 1619, Dutch traders brought African slaves taken from a Spanish ship to Point Comfort. Several colonial colleges held enslaved people as workers and relied on them to operate

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Slavery started in colonies because the colony was mainly found by plants from the Barbados who brought large amounts of African slaves from the island to establish new plantations and to meet agricultural needs .
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